Brian Rosen is a partner in the Business Finance & Restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. His practice focuses on out-of-court debt restructurings, Chapter 11, acquisitions of distressed companies or assets and the collection of sovereign indebtedness. Mr. Rosen is one of the lead partners representing Washington Mutual Inc., New York Racing Association (operator of Belmont, Saratoga and Aqueduct racetracks) and Enron Corp. in their Chapter 11 cases. Several other cases in which Mr. Rosen has been involved include United Companies Financial Corporation, Grove, Classic Cable, Chrysler Properties, Inc. (owner of The Chrysler Building), Olympia & York, The Leslie Fay Companies, Inc., Paracelsus Healthcare Corporation, Fine Host Corporation, Petrolane Incorporated (a prepackaged plan of reorganization), Eastern Airlines, Inc., Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., and Frontier Airlines, Inc. Mr. Rosen has led the representation of a consortium of lenders in the Chapter 11 acquisition of the Philadelphia office buildings owned by 1600 Arch Street Corporation, Consumer News and Business Channel Partnership in its acquisition of Financial News Network, General Electric Capital Corporation in its acquisition of North American Car Corporation, Mark III Industries, Inc. in its acquisition of Tiara Motorcoach Corporation, Steinhardt Partners in its acquisition of Victoria Station restaurants, Toscorp, Inc. in its acquisition of the Sfuzzi restaurant chain and Meadowstar Holding Company, Inc. in its acquisition of American Property Investors, Inc., a subsidiary of Integrated Resources Inc.
Prior to joining Weil Gotshal, Mr. Rosen was the law clerk to the Honorable Manuel D. Leal, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Mr. Rosen is admitted to all courts in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Mr. Rosen is a graduate of Brandeis University and Suffolk University Law School.